@dihvocfoscocudvyvdd8101 If Sun Yat-sen somehow avoided the need to compromise with Yuan Shikai (thus kickstarting the Warlord Era) and later Kuomintang leadership would be inherited by someone less corrupt and dictatorial-inclined than Chiang Kai-shek...
On the other hand, both original USSR and RF federal structures were actually pretty loose, but as soon as Moscow regime stabilized (you can add 1905 here as well) it quickly began tying loose ends. So assuming price of oil jumps in this reality, I can see Kremlin using it as a leverage to curb decentralization Although from the POV of Empire, keeping Ukraine really is a better option then loosing it, so this scenario is a better reality for Russian Imperial project then the one we live in
Super clear and streamlined. Great video. Wonder what role China played or would play in keeping a neighbor from becoming a democracy and aligning with Europe and the far West.
I think it would be very interesting to evaluate a democratic Russia in a post-WW1 world. Higher birthrates, gradual democratization, gradual industrialization, and a healthy orthodox and maintained culture would create a very interesting dynamic in global politics between the US, Germany, China, Japan, and the UK
It's not a pity, it's a blessing in disguise as such "democratic Russia" physically couldn't have existed and "Union of Sovereign States" would've been a russian imperialist scam bigger than pyramid schemes in 90's Albania.
@@National-Democrat.Ukrainian It could have been an honest "local EU-equivalent", if have been true to its stated original goal, and not as a tool for Yeltsin to cling to Russia's authority in the region.
